Word: hours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray knew a good thing when he saw it. His steelworkers' new contract with the Bethlehem Steel Co. was a juicier plum (by 2½? or 5? an hour) than the union had previously hoped to win from the struck steel industry. From now on, the complicated "Bethlehem Formula," would be the basis for the steelworkers' terms...
High Hopes. Thus, with high hopes, the United Steelworkers set out last week to deal with steel companies who, after five strikebound weeks, were making conciliatory sounds. In contrast to the simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have...
...matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
...Hour exams and dead-pigeoning for Art Valpey have reduced practice time to occasional hellos in the showers...
Captain Joe Loeming, sophomore star Dave Gregory, Bill Baker, John Paukey, Dave Cairns, and Hank Everett comprise Mikkola's team. Dick White, for two years a regular on all of Mikkola's track and cross-country squads, was originally intended to be the seventh man. White, however, has two hour exams early next week, and will not make the trip...